The showdown continues at TotalEnergies. The strike was renewed on Friday, October 14 at the start of the afternoon, on all of the oil company’s sites, announced Eric Sellini, CGT coordinator for the group. The union is not a signatory to an agreement between the management and the two majority organisations, the CFE-CGC and the CFDT.
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The movement is renewed until Friday evening in the group’s refineries and oil depots in La Mède, Feyzin, Flanders, Donges and, until Tuesday at the Normandy refinery, the largest in France, said Eric Sellini.
After negotiations during the night, a compromise was sealed Friday at midday between the management of TotalEnergies, the CFDT and the CFE-CGC, which represent 56% of union members between them. The agreement covers an increase for 2023 of 7% from November (including 5% guaranteed for non-executives) and 3,000 to 6,000 euros in bonus.
The CGT is demanding a 10% increase, corresponding to “inflation, plus wealth sharing, since Total is doing well and shareholders have been served for a long time”recalled on france info Friday Philippe Martinez, the number one of the union.
The deal “will not change the state of mind and the determination of the strikers”warned Alexis Antonioli, CGT general secretary of the TotalEnergies Normandy platform, now hoping “the generalization of the movement”. Calls to the “general strike” have been launched, and Tuesday should be the occasion for a day of national strike, from transport (SNCF, RATP, dockers) to civil servants, following the call of four unions (CGT, FO, Solidaires, FSU) and several youth organizations.